Why be a fork lift truck engineer?

Wherever goods are being delivered – to factories, warehouses or docks – there’s a fork lift
truck to manage the heavy lifting. In fact there are over half a million fork lift trucks in daily
use in the UK. Each must be regularly serviced – just like a car – to ensure that it works
correctly and safely.

Unlike a car, most fork lift truck servicing is done ‘on-site’, which means engineers typically spend
much of their day ‘on the road’ taking a mobile workshop to the customer. The engineer will also be responsible for making brand new fork lifts ready for the customer.

Once trained as a fork lift truck engineer, you will be an expert in electrical and hydraulic systems, diesel and gas powered engines and much more. Like
today’s automotive industry, it’s no longer ‘spanners and oily rags’ either. Fork
lift truck engineers regularly use laptop or palmtop computers to diagnose
problems or fine-tune fork lift truck performance.

Fork lift truck service staff are highly skilled, well paid and respected
engineers – with lots of scope for different jobs in the future.